#horns

The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream. ↗

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

#does #dream #profession #reader #thorns

The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#flower #need #numerous #single #thorns

He studies me thoughtfully. "You are a beautiful queen, Elisa," he says voice pitched low. I never expected he would say such a thing. "A month or two of pastries will fix that," I say. Then I smile to show him I mean it flippantly. His expression does not change. "Even then. ↗

— Rae Carson

#beauty

Why are roses kept for their blossoms rather than shunned for their thorns? ↗

— J. Aleksandr Wootton

#blossom #philosophy-of-beauty #price-of-beauty #roses #thorns

There's no dearth of kindness In the world of ours; Only in our blindness We gather thorns for flowers. ↗

— Gerald Massey

#dearth #flowers #gather #kindness #only

My solution to the problem would be to tell the North Vietnamese Communists frankly that they've got to drawn in their horns and stop their aggression or we're going to bomb them into the stone age. ↗

— Curtis LeMay

#aggression #bomb #communists #drawn #frankly

My life is part humor, part roses, part thorns. ↗

— Bret Michaels

#life #my life #part #roses #thorns

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns. ↗

— Thomas Moore

#always #awake #first #flowers #heart

I just came from Aspen, Colorado and they had fifteen kids I played for and they all played horns. ↗

— Jimmy Smith

#came #colorado #fifteen #had #horns

If love is a battlefield and we all get scars....These were my reminders…my necessary thorns. ↗

— Sabrina Childress

#life #love #those-necessary-thorns #life